Market Overview

And Stocks take the lead from Bonds for 2015… If you wanted to see extreme mean reversion in action, U.S. Treasury Bonds are your best example for this year. The iShares Long Treasury Bond ETF...

This week we get fourth quarter earnings results from the country’s two largest home improvement retailers. Home Depot (NYSE:HD) is set to release earnings before tomorrow’s opening bell,...

"Index shows economic growth picked up slightly in January": This is the headline for today's release of the Chicago Fed's National Activity Index, and here are the opening paragraphs from the report:...

The Chicago Fed's National Activity Index, which I reported on earlier today, is based on 85 economic indicators drawn from four broad categories of data: Production and Income Employment,...

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued its final rule on security based swap reporting, Regulation SBSR, meant to discharge a statutory mandate imposed by Congress in the Dodd-Frank...

According to Bespoke, the market expectations for the first rate hike in the wake of the last release of FOMC minutes is late 2015, specifically the December meeting: When Fed Chair Janet Yellen...

Complex, erratic consolidations… These seem to be the case in five out of the six currency pairs I follow. However, there is a limit to the collective corrected phases seen within these types...

As we head toward Tuesday's Fed Chair testimony on Capitol Hill, let's notice that 10-year yield has reversed from pushing up against key near-term resistance at 2.14% toward a test of key near-term...

Last week, the markets hit new "all-time" highs as Greece caved into the demands of the Eurozone, at least for now, in order to secure funding for another four months. The relief that the latest...

We are fast approaching the time when it will become obvious to all that mortally-wounded economies cannot be resuscitated by a massive increase in credit from central banks. Nations that suffer from...

Despite a shortened week due to President Day in the United States, financial markets remained highly volatile last week. For the first time in February, the price of oil ended the week in negative...

With some of the big near-term uncertainties gradually being cleared up (Greece and Ukraine), we think EM assets could get some traction this week. That said, EM FX will remain vulnerable and liable...

Chicago Fed: US Economy Off To A Solid Start In 2015The US economy continued to grow at a strong “above-trend” pace through January, according to this morning’s update of the Chicago...

Negotiations between Greece and its eurozone partners wrapped up Friday on an encouraging note. The parties agreed to extend Greece's four-month bailout plan provided that the country submit a series...